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diff --git a/doc/rtd/topics/capabilities.rst b/doc/rtd/topics/capabilities.rst index 3e2c9e31..2d8e2538 100644 --- a/doc/rtd/topics/capabilities.rst +++ b/doc/rtd/topics/capabilities.rst @@ -16,13 +16,15 @@ User configurability `Cloud-init`_ 's behavior can be configured via user-data. - User-data can be given by the user at instance launch time. + User-data can be given by the user at instance launch time. See + :ref:`user_data_formats` for acceptable user-data content. + This is done via the ``--user-data`` or ``--user-data-file`` argument to ec2-run-instances for example. -* Check your local clients documentation for how to provide a `user-data` - string or `user-data` file for usage by cloud-init on instance creation. +* Check your local client's documentation for how to provide a `user-data` + string or `user-data` file to cloud-init on instance creation. Feature detection @@ -166,6 +168,13 @@ likely be promoted to top-level subcommands when stable. validation is work in progress and supports a subset of cloud-config modules. + * ``cloud-init devel render``: Use cloud-init's jinja template render to + process **#cloud-config** or **custom-scripts**, injecting any variables + from ``/run/cloud-init/instance-data.json``. It accepts a user-data file + containing the jinja template header ``## template: jinja`` and renders + that content with any instance-data.json variables present. + + .. _cli_clean: cloud-init clean |